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	Current Rate Sheet in Acrobat PDF Format (1.3 MB)

If you want to reach cooperative retailers throughout North America, Cooperative Grocer is ideally suited for your purpose.

Cooperative Grocer is distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada to cooperatively owned food retails. It is the trade magazine for co-op managers, buyers, directors and other leaders of these businesses. The editorial copy is aimed at improving all aspects of retail operations and governance. And the advertising copy complements our professional, trade focus.

Cooperative Grocer has been published since 1985. Read closely and received enthusiastically by cooperative retailers, the magazine is reaching nearly all the 200 stores in its target audience. Bi-monthly circulation is 1,700.

Cooperative Grocer is published six times annually. Our advertising rates are very reasonable. And advertisers earn discounts of 10 to 20 percent when they advertise in three or six editions.

Cooperative Grocer provides your best means for reaching retail co-ops everywhere. We are eager to help you market your products and services to retail cooperatives.

Rates

Deadlines

Ad Requirements and Terms

Materials may be sent:

• In electronic format (as an email attachment or on CD). If emailing, please use a compression program such as Stuffit and save in .sit or .sit.hqx format.
• As a positive velox or laserprint (if the ad does not contain halftones or screens)

We accept the following formats:

• Adobe Illustrator 10.x EPS—please convert all fonts to outlines.
• High-resolution (300 to 600 dpi) JPG files with minimal compression.
• Adobe Acrobat PDF—please be sure your image files are 300 dpi final size, fonts are
  embedded, and all images are CMYK or grayscale (not RGB).
• Adobe InDesign 2.x—please include all printer and screen fonts used, including those
  in placed EPS files, a laser proof or PDF proof of the ad, and all placed graphics.
• QuarkXPress 6.x—please include all printer and screen fonts used, including those
  in placed EPS files, a laser proof or PDF proof of the ad, and all placed graphics.

Ad materials must be received no later than five days after the closing date.
See below for shipping and email addresses.

Advertising Policies

Cooperative Grocer advertising and editorial content will remain separate.
The following are the advertising policies of the publication:

• Acceptance of an ad does not imply endorsement of a product or service by the Cooperative Grocer.
• Cooperative Grocer reserves the right to reject any advertising.
• While Cooperative Grocer may plan special issues focusing on themes related to the publication’s mission, plan special advertising and/or editorial sections, and may solicit advertising to accompany such themes, editorial decisions will at all times remain the independent judgment of the editor.
• Cooperative Grocer reserves the right to insert the word “Advertisement” in any ad.
• Advertising that is not camera-ready will be made camera-ready at advertiser expense.
• Cooperative Grocer requires pre-payment from first-time advertisers. Cooperative Grocer reserves the right to require COD from any advertisers.
• Cooperative Grocer will not be held liable for minor changes or typographical errors that do not lessen the value of the advertisement. Liability for errors in advertising will not exceed the cost of the ad.
• Design work produced by the publishing contractor remains its property, unless permission is granted for release.
• The advertiser agrees to defend and indemnify the Cooperative Grocer against any claim or liability arising from publication of any advertisement.
• If the advertiser breaks a contract, they agree to pay the difference between discount and full rates.

Ad billing invoices are mailed with the issue in which the ad appears, with 30 day terms. Rates are net to Cooperative Grocer and effective 11/1/06.

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Editor: Dave Gutknecht dave@cooperativegrocer.coop
Managing Publisher: Dan Nordley dan@triangleparkcreative.com
Webmaster: webmaster@cooperativegrocer.coop